May 14, 2004

• 412 days of xanga. I’m so excited for Prom!!!!!
  Coolest experience today . . . will get to it in a sec.

  Can I just say my opinion of the Stevenson Administration has gone up drastically this week? They have cracked down on immodesty as a reaction to a trend of very scandalous skirts. There is a noticable change in the way girls now have to dress, and I love it. I have always been attracted to the girls who take the time to go hunting for moddest clothes or who find creative ways to wear their clothes appropriately. I am glad the school is now encouraging that and hope that the higher demand for modest clothes will increase the stock of modest clothes so that my friends and sisters can find it easier.

  Also . . . In Creative Writing I am writing a story taken from the The Book of Mormon. It’s from Mosiah 7, 22- the escape of King Limhi’s people. Anyway, I was working on the story in the resource center today when one of the tutors walked by. He looked over my shoulder, saw the word “Ammon” and asked me if it was from the Book of Mormon. We had a really cool conversation in which he told me about how a student (Mike Robbins) had given him a Book of Mormon years ago and about how he was fascinated by it, expecially by the geographical setting. He told me about all these books he had read about archeological evidence of the Book of Mormon, it was really cool. Anyway, he bore his testimony to me saying that he “really believed the Book of Mormon was genuine and authentic” and that there was no way Joseph Smith could have written it himself, but that it was actually translated.

  I was amazed. I have borne my testimony to friends and teachers at school all the time, but never in high school has a teacher borne his testimony to me. It gave me goose-bumps to realize that this work is really going forward. How exciting. I wish this had happened freshman year so that I could continue having these conversations with him. LDS Stevenson students out there: go the rescource center in the old building and read your Book of Mormon. See what happens.

  Oh, I told Elizabeth about it when she drove me home and it was a lot of fun, we had also had a good conversation. I’m just all about having good conversations today.

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